The 15th Core R&D call is happening this Thursday (2022-08-31T23:00:00Z).
This is a recurring call where different contributors from various teams gather around to discuss major updates from different working groups and brainstorm around active R&D tracks.
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Agenda:
[The Graph Foundation]
MIPs Program Overview
[Data & APIs WG]
Graph Node and Graph Client updates
Building a Cosmos Subgraph and other Tendermint-based Chains
Update on Substreams in Subgraphs and DevEx
[Network and Protocol Operations WG]
Introduction to Graphcast - The Graph’s Gossip Network
As The Graph is being built in public and in a decentralized way, we’ve put together a new publicly accessible The Graph Core R&D Workspace . You can resort to this page to follow along with each working group’s progress on significant workstreams, access meeting notes, and recordings.
Roadmap
The Graph Foundation has recently released a blog post presenting the Core R&D roadmap. Please feel free to reach out if you believe you can contribute to any of the listed workstreams!
Hey everyone! Thanks for all the feedback, comments and questions on the Core Dev Call yesterday. As promised, here’s a recording of a demo of the proof of concept, recorded about a month ago - the “frontend”, workflow and logs are more or less the same since then, but we’ve also added a bunch of new features that will be laid out in the README of the proof of concept repo soon. We will record another demo once the proof of concept is finished, where we will dive deeper into how things work.
In The Graph’s Core Devs Call #15 we learn about the MIPs program, view demos on Graphcast, @Live Queries and Building Subgraphs for Tendermint chains and receive a development update on Substreams.
Topics Include:
Migration Infrastructure Providers Program Overview
Intro to Graphcast
@Live Queries w/ Dotan
Building Subgraphs for Tendermint Chains w/ Bartosz
Update on Substreams
Detailed notes regarding each topic with timestamps can be found below.
MIPs (Migration Infrastructure Providers) Program Overview (03:05)
Focus
The focus of the MIPs program is to bootstrap Indexers to support new chains on the decentralized network, allowing for multi-chain subgraphs to migrate.
Incentives
50M GRT for Indexers (0.5% GRT supply)
25M GRT for subgraph migration grants (0.25% GRT supply)
Breakdown for Distribution
Chain allocation will be defined mid-program. GRT will be allocated towards bootstrapping specific chains for the program.
Criteria for Performance
The core objectives of the program are to test network infrastructure, expand the decentralized network to new chains and support the migration of subgraphs. Indexers will participate in a gamified system of scoring and a leaderboard will be used to distribute awards at the end of each cycle. Points will be gained based on an Indexers participation in three core areas:
Subgraph Coverage
Quality of Service
Community Support
Chains
Each new chain will be announced with 2 weeks’ notice to allow for Indexers to prepare for the chain. Gnosis chain is the first chain announced to be part of the program.
Petko, a team member at GraphOps, gave a presentation on Graphcast. Graphcast is a decentralized, distributed peer-to-peer communication tool that allows Indexers across the decentralized network to exchange information in real time. Graphcast is an optional off-chain layer, which allows Indexers to exchange P2P messages without paying extravagant gas costs. There is work being done to ensure message integrity and can be read more about in the GRC.
What does Graphcast unlock?
New forms of healthy communication among Indexers
Easier experience for tooling developers
Democratizing access to underlying data
Concerns
No strong guarantees of message integrity
Difficulties in testing Radios/ a network of radios would need to be deployed to test messages passed between them
Lack of multi-language support
Use Cases
Conducting auctions for warp syncing purposes
Self-reporting on query analytics
Self-reporting on Indexing analytics
Real-time cross checking of subgraph data integrity
AutoAgora cross-indexer signals/negotiations for improved automated query pricing
Tech Stack
Waku v2 protocol for decentralized messaging features (open to discussion for alternatives)
TypeScript SDK that abstracts over Waku, provides identity resolution which improves message integrity and exposes a rich interface for building Radios
The project is open Source and built publicy.
Next Steps
Collect feedback from Indexers
Publish Graphcast SD
@Live Queries (24:00)
Dotan Simha, of The Guild core development team, presented on their work to introduce @live queries into the GraphQL interface. @live queries allow dApp developers query real-time data from their subgraphs. A GIP was recently introduced on The Graph’s forum. View Dotan’s demo below!
Building Subgraphs for Tendermint Chains (32:13)
The Figment Core Development Team has been working on integrating the Cosmos Ecosystem with The Graph. Bartosz Pienkowski presented on how to build subgraphs for the Cosmos Ecosystem.
Substreams Development Update (42:05)
Substreams Core
Teams internally and externally are experimenting with Substreams.
The 15th Core R&D call is happening this Thursday (2022-08-31T23:00:00Z).
Please subscribe to The Graph Foundation’s Ecosystem Calendar so you don’t miss any of the upcoming calls!
Agenda:
The recording will be uploaded here.
The Graph Core R&D Workspace
Roadmap
